Eye mounting for dolls



L. J. GRUBMAN 1,817,001

EYE MOUNTING FOR DOLLS Filed Jan. 18, 1927 w 3 Sheets-Sheet "l INVEN'IORAug. 4, 1931. J. GRUBMAN 1,817,001

EYE MOUNTING FOR DOLLS Filed Jan. 18. 1927 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 4, 1931. 1..J. GRUBMAN 1,817,001

EYE MOUNTING FOR DOLLS Filed Jan. 18, 1927 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 7 v a7 aafze as 45 .24 34 06 3 34 32 41 33 if 33 34 34 44 3 v aff I W ATTORNEYPatented Aug. 4, 1931 UN D STATES PATENT OFFICE no GRUIBMAN, or BELLEHARBOR, LONG ISLAND,

NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MAR- GQN CORPORATION, OF NEW YORKpN. Y., ACORPORATIGN OF NEXV YORK v EYE nonnrrne FOR- DOLLS Application filedJanuary 18,1927. Serial No. 161,725.

- This invention relates to eye mountings for-dolls andattaching toolstherefor, and

has for its primary object to provide im- "or of the eye setting. Morefrom their anch proved means for easily, quickly and securely attachingthe supporting member for an oscillatory eye settingv to the wall of adoll head and which will positively insure a non bi-ndin'g freeoscillating motion of the eye members' with respect to. the openings inthe head wall without subsequent adjustment of either-the supportingmember, particularly, my present' improvements comprehend a novel formof the" supporting member and attaching means therefor which isessentially characterized by the" provision of movablefaistening oranchoring elements carneaby the supporting member and adapted to beimpaled in the" structure of the head wall, together with means on saidsupporting member adaptedto be engaged with said elements and. fixedlysecure the same a ainst any possibility of movement oring positions withrespect to the'supporting member so that the latter is positively fixedagainst any possibility of displacement relative to the wall of the dollhead, thereby insuring permanency in the relationship "between theoscillatory eye setting and the eye openingsin the head wall. I p

It'is another important object of inventionto providela simplyconstructed and easily operated; tool upon which the sup.- portingmember and the :efye setting "are adapted to be detachably mounted in adefiiiitk'e' predetermined relation to each other, and said" toolincluding a movable part adapted to impale the anchoring elements in thewall of the doll'head which is positioned jover" the tool with theeyemembers of 't'he setting in engagement with the eye re,ceivingcavitiesinthe head wall, and said movable tool element also automatically en.-gaging the securing means on the supportingm mber with said anchoringelements to securely lock thelatterin their anchoring positions relativeto the supporting 1 member.

present improvements and in which the invention consists in the improvedeye mounting and in the attaching tool therefor, as will be hereinaftermore fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, andsubsequently incorporated in the subjoined claims.

In the drawings, wherein I have disclosed one simple and practicalembodiment of my similar reference characters designate correspond ingparts throughout the scveralviews',

Figure l is a vertical sectional view through the front wall of a dollhead showing my improved eye mounting attached thereto;

' Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the head wall with theeye mountingapplied, a part of the wall being shown in section;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4- is a rear elevation of the mounting showing the relativeposition of the parts before attaclnnent to the doll head;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section taken on the line 5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the tool, parts thereof being in section,and showing the supporting member and eye setting arranged thereon andthe doll head positioned relative thereto prior to the attachment of thesupporting member;

Fig. 7 is a plan view illustrating the essential parts of the attachingtool;

Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional view taken onthe line 8-8 of Fig. 6; p

Fig. 9 is a similar sectional View taken on the line 9-9 of Fig. 6, andI Fig. 10 is a detail side elevation partly in section of the movabletool member or anvil.

In the accompanying drawings, for purposes of illustration, I have shownthe front portion of a doll head 5, the wall structure of said headbeing molded or otherwise fashioned from wood pulp, papier mach or othercomposition material of similar nature. The front wall of the doll headis provided with the usual spaced eye openings, one of which'isindicated at 7 arranged other molded facial features of the head wall,the inner surface of said wall at each of the eye openings being milledout in the usual manner to provide a concave seating surface for therespective hemispherical eye members. 5

The improved eye mounting constituting one of the importantfeatures ofthis application, as herein shown embodies a supporting member for theoscillatory eye setting. This supporting member may be conveniently andinexpensively produced from a stamped sheet metal blank which is bentinto channel-shaped form, providing the intermediate body wall 8 and thelongitudinal side flanges 9 at opposite edges thereof. At a pointintermediate of its ends the body wall 8 has aslot or opening 10 thereinextending betweenthe side flanges 9, and said flanges are each-providedwith a recess indicated at 11, in line with said slot for the receptionof the cylindrical intermediate part 12 of the axis or shaft of the eyesetting. 'The opposite end portions of this shaft at either s'ide of thesupporting member are preferably of rectangular form as indicated at 13and upon the same the hemispherical eye members 14 are fitted and heldthereby against independent rotative movement. To the center of theshaft or axis 12 the upper end of the usual pendulum rod 15 is suitablyattached, said upper. end of the rod having an angular rearwardlyprojecting terminal portion 16 adapted by contact with the body wall 8of the supporting member to. limit oscillatory movement of the eyemembers to their closed positions. To the other, .end of the rod 15 asuitable weight .17 is attached and by contact with the head walllimitsthe movement of the eye members to open position.

Each of the flanges 9 at the upper end edges thereof is provided with arecess indieated at 18, and the longitudinal edges of these flanges inspaced relation to their.

lower ends are each provided with a bayonet slot 18. These recesses andslots are adapted to receive suitably formed parts on a tooll arm aswill belater described in deta1 From the body wall 8 of the supportingmember adjacent to its opposite ends a tongue 19 is struck to projectinwardly between the sideflanges 9 substantially at right angles to thebody wall. Upon each of these inwardly projecting tongues, an anchoringmember 20 is adapted to be engaged.

As herein shown, eachof these anchoring" members consists of a resilientsheetmetal plate normally'of the bowed form illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9of the drawings. This plate ,lS centrally provided with a suitablyformed opening '21 to receive the tongue 19 i and the opposite ends ofsaid plate have beveled edges ndicated at 22to thereby proopeningstherein is internally formed with an enlargement or projection 25 and asimilar internal enlargement or projection is also formed upon the headwall below the nose as indicated at 26. 'These enlarged wall sectionsare centrally provided with the vertical recesses 27 and 28 respectivelywhich are adapted to receive the upper and lower ends of the supportingmember: as will be hereinafter described. The supporting. member withthe eye setting mounted thereon is applied in operative relation to thedoll head wall by means of a suitable tool. One embodiment of this toolis illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

As shown, I provide a tool arm generally indicated at 29 extendinglaterally and upwardly at a slight inclination from the upper end of astandard 30 which issuitably fixed at its lower end to a benchsupporting base. l The arm 29 consists of parallel longitudinallyextending side bars or rails .31 integrally connected at their ends bythe transverse bar or cross piece 32. The rails '31 have correspondinglylocated upper edge portions 33 extending from the transverse connectingbar 32 in a horizontal plane and at the inner side of each rail anupstanding longitudinal rib 34 is formed upon these horizontal edgeportions. Intermediate of the endsof the said edges 33, each rail 31 isprovided with a vertical recess 35 and at one side of said-recess eachof the ribs 34 is formed with an upwardly projecting lug 36. Atthe-opposite side ofeach recess 35 the rail 31 is formed with anupwardly projecting angular or hook shapedlug 37 and in line with theselugs, the cross bar 32 is-pro- .vided at its opposite ends with ftheinwardly projecting lugs 38 spaced from the edges 33 of the rails 31. v

Between the spaced rails 31at theirinner ends a lever 39 is fulcrumed'intermediateof its endsupon the pin 40. The outerend portion of thislever is bifurcated, and the spaced arms 41 thereof have theirendportions inwardly offset towards each other as indicated at 42 .andprovided with longitudinally elongated openings 43 therein. Theseopenings are adapted to receive the ends of a shaft 44 upon which ananvil member 45 illustrated in detail in Fig; 10 of the drawings issuitably fixed intermediate of its ends. This anvil member has spacedside portions which straddle the ends ofthe arms4l of the. lever 39, theupper edges thereof being provided with notches or. reeesses shown at46. This anvil member at its opposite ends and in the upper. surfacethereof is centrally formed with a short longitudinal channel 47 whichopens upon the end edge of said member. The wall of said channel at theinner end thereof is upwardly curved to provide a cam surface 48, thepin'pose of which will be presently explained. v

In the attachment of mynew eye mounting to the wall of the doll head,the eye setting is assembled with the supporting member with its shaftor axis seated in the recesses .11 thereof, and said supportingthereonso as to engage the lugs 37' and 38 on therails3l in theslots'and notches 1'8 and 18 respectively of the flanges 9. It is of course,understood that the anchoring members 'or'plates are first {assembledwith the stnopor-tingv member as shown in the, channels 47. 2. .45

Figs .-8 and 9' before said member is thus attached to the tool arm.Whenthe supporting member is arranged upon therails 31, the lugs 36onzsaid rails engage the underside of the shaft or axis of the eyesettingand lift the same slightly and support said axis above the innerends of the recesses 11. "The opposite ends-'ofthe anvil member areengaged with the central portionsfof the respective anchoringqplates20-and the ends of the tongues :19 are opposed to" theinner curved endwalls 48 of The doll head is now arranged over the tool armandthehemispherical eye members 1-4 :are engaged :with the concavesurfaces on the inner surface of the .head wall atthe respective eyeopenings7. The head is-adjusted with respect to the eye membersuntil-the pupils of said eye members are centrally vpositioned withrespect i to "the lower edges ofthe eyeopenings-as indicated in Fig.8 ofthe drawings; 7 :In this position ofthe dollhead, it"will be notedthatthe opposite ends of the-supporting member for the eye setting arelocated in the respective recesses -27 and 28; of the head wall. Theangular position of the supporting member relative-to the plane ofthehead wall is determined :by the depth of the: eye receiving icavitiesan d will be observed that said supporting member is positioned .at moreor less of an inclination with respect to the -general plane of the,head walliso that while said member at its upper end is substantially incontact with the head wall at the base of the recess 27 and ispositioned wholly within said recess, the supporting member at its lowerend is spaced rearwardly from the base wall of the recess 28 andtheflanges 9 of said member project rearwardly from the open side of therecess.

After the head has thus been properly adjusted with respect to the twoeye members, the operator depresses the end of lever 39 projecting fromthe neck of the doll head. The anvil member 45 is thus raisedvertically, the pin 44 moving upwardly in the recesses 35 of the toolarm, while the supporting member is held stationary upon the tool arm bythe lugs 37 and 38. The ends of the anvil member bearing against theresilient anchoring plates 20, straighten or flatten the bowed plates,projecting the spurs 23 on the ends thereof in opposite directionsthrough the openings 24 in the flanges 9 and deeply impaling said spursinto the structure of the doll head. This straightening action by theanvil member whereby the anchoring plates are thus impaled in the wallstructure continues until all parts of said plates are substantially ina common plane as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. of the anchoringmember, and shortly after the points of the spurs 23 have enteredthestructure of the head wall, the ends of the tongues 9 on the oppositeends of the supporting member are engaged by the cam surfaces 48 andsaid tongues are thereby bent in relatively opposite directions andextend through the channels 47 around the central partof the anchoringplate at one side of the opening 21 therein. Therefore, when theanchoring plate is fully straightened out, said tongues will be bentinto sub stantially U-shaped form and climbed upon the anchoring platesas shown in Fig. l of the drawings to prevent the return of said platesto their normal bowed condition and the retraction of the spurs 23 fromthe wall structure. It will therefore, be apparent that these anchoringmembers are thus automatically fixed in a very positive and se- 1 curemanner to the supporting member, while said supporting memberi'sfi'xedly anchored at its opposite ends to the wall structure of thedoll head by said anchoring plates.

After the supporting member for the eye setting has been attached to thewall of the doll head in the manner above explained, the head is shiftedrelative to the tool arm to disengage the lugs 37 and 38 from the slotsandrecesses in the flanges of the supporting member, whereupon the dollhead with the supporting member and eye setting attached in operativerelation to each other may :be removed-from the tool. It will be At thestart of this movement evident that by the provision of my novel form ofattaching means for the supporting member with the tool for engaging theatperipheral surfaces of the respective 'eye members will not have atightxfrictional bearing contact with the edges of the eye openings 7,thus permitting of the free and unretarded oscillatory motion of saideye members totheir open and closed positions. From theforegoingdescription considered in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the construction of my improved eye mounting-as well as theconstruction and manner of. operationrofthe attaching tool therefor willbe fully understood. It will be seen that after the mounting hasuoncebeen attached, it is fixedly heldv against ossibilit -of movement in-a'ndirection P with respect to the wall of the doll head so that saidsupporting member cannotbecome accidentally displaced and release the,eye setting from its proper operating position with relation to the eyeopenings or obstruct orretard the free oscillating motion of the eyesetting. Al'so, it will be apparent that of the eye setting or thesupporting member 7 by, reason of the construction of the eye mountingand the manner of-its attachment with the eye setting in associatedrelation therewith to the wall of the doll'head as above explained, nosubsequent adjustments with relationvto each other or with respect tothe doll head wall is required in order .to insure the proper operatingmotion of the eye members. 7 V

I have above described a-form of the anchoring plates20 and of the meansfor fixedly securing the same with relation toi'he supporting member,which has given excellent results in practice, nevertheless this part ofmy present disclosure as well as the particular form and construction ofthe channel V shaped supporting member, may be susceptible ofconsiderable mechanical variation in form and construction. Likewise theimproved attaching tool as herein disclosed, while exceedingly simpleand efficient for the purpose in view, might also be exemplified innumerous other alternative constructions.

'Accordingly,it is to be understood that-I reseryethe privilege ofresorting to all such legitlmate changesin the'form, construction andrelative arrangement of the various elean eye supporting member adaptedto be inserted within a doll head inposition'for attachment to the frontwall thereof, resilient anchoring members carried by said supportingmember and having partsimpaling the structure of said wall when saidresilient members are placed under tension, and movable means on thesupporting member to coact with said anchoring members and rigidly fixthe same in the latter'position. I

2. An eye mounting for dolls comprising an eye supporting member adaptedto be inserted within a doll head inposition for attachment to the frontwall'thereof, resilientanchoring members carried by said supportingmember and having parts impaling the'structure "of said wall when saidresilient members are placed under tension, and said supporting memberhaving bendable parts adapted to be clinched upon the anchoring membersto fixedly secure the same in the latter position with respect to thesupporting member. V

I 3. An eye mounting for dolls comprising an eye supporting memberadapted to be inserted within a doll headin position for attachment tothe front wall thereof, said memberincluding spaced-parts each having anopening therein, a resilient anchoring member having parts projectingthrough said openings and adapted to be subjected supporting member. r

4:. An eye mounting for dolls comprising an eye supporting memberadapted to be inserted within a doll head in positionfor attachmentto'the front-wall thereof, said member having side fianges'each providedwith an opening therein, -a bowed resilient anchoring plate arrangedbetween said flanges and having its opposite ends engaged insaidopenings, said plate: adapted to "be flattened out under pressuretothereby project the end portions thereof through said openings andimpale the same in the structure of the head wall, and means forimmovably locking the anchoring plate in the latterposition with respectto said supporting member. c

' 5. An eye mounting for dolls comprising an eye supporting memberadapted to be inserted within a doll head in position for attachment tothe front wall thereof, said member having side flanges each providedwith. an opening therein, a bowed resilient anchoring plate arrangedbetween said flanges and having its'opposite ends en gaged in saidOpenings, said plate adapted to be flattened out under pressure to thereby projectthe end portions thereof through said openings andv impale thesame in the structure of the head wall, and said supporting memberhaving a bendable tongue struck from its intermediate portion adapted tobe I ing position memb Y to the head wall and the bent and clinched uponthe anchoring plate to immovably lock the same in its anchorwith respectto the supporting er.

I 6. An eye mounting a channel shaped eye supporting member adapted tobe inserted within a doll head and vertically positioned with respect tothe front wall for attachment thereto, the side flanges of saidsupporting member having openings therein adjacent their opposite ends,relatively movable anchorin means arranged in the channel of saisupporting member and having parts movable outwardly through saidopenings and adapted to be impaled in the structure of the head wall,and additional means carried by the supporting member and adjustablerelative thereto into locking engagement with said anchoring means tofixedly secure the same in anchoring position with respect supportingmember. 7. An eye mounting for dolls comprising for" dolls comprising achannel shaped eye supporting member adaptedtobe inserted within a dollhead and vertically positioned with respect to the front wall forattachment thereto, the side flanges of said supporting member havingopenings therein adjacent their opposite ends, relatively movableanchoring means arranged in the channel of said supporting member andhaving parts movable outwardly through saidopenings and adapted to beimpaled in the structure of the head wall, and said supporting memberhaving bendable tongues struck from its intermediate portion projectinginto the channel thereof and adapted to be bent upon parts of saidanchoring means to immovably lock the latter in anchoring position withrespect to the head wall and the supporting member.

8. In a mounting for oscillatory eye set wall of the doll head wherebysaid plate is placed under tension and the supporting member secured infixed relation to the head wall, and means for retaining said plate inanchoring position.

9. In combination, a doll head having eye openings and opposed internalsurfaces p0- sitioned at substantially right angles to the front wall ofthe doll head, an oscillatory eye mounting comprising eye members and aconnecting element therebetween, a supporting member engaged betweensaid opposed surfaces and having means supporting said connectingelement for oscillatory movement, a resilient anchoring element for saidsupporting member having parts cooperating with the supporting memberand adapted to be moved in opposite directions by the application of atensioning pressure to said element to position said parts in lockedengagement with said opposed surfaces of the head wall to thereby securesaid member in fixed relation to said wall, and means for retaining saidelement in anchoring position.

10. In combination with a doll head, means formounting an oscillatoryeye setting within said doll head, said means including a supportingmember having bearing means to receive the axis of the eye setting, andanchoring means carried by said supporting member comprising a normallybowed resiliently yieldable part having wall impaling means adapted tobe deformed under pressure to embed said means in the structure of thedoll head wall, and additional means adjustable relative to saidsupporting member into engagement with said deformed anchoring part toimmovably lock the latter in its anchoring position with re spect to thesupporting member.

11. In combination with a doll head, means for mounting an oscillatoryeye set ting within said doll head including a supporting member havingbearing means for the axis of the eye setting, and means carried by saidsupporting member for rigidly securing said member to the frontwall ofthe doll head, said means comprising an hereto.

LEO J. GRUBMAN.

